Tabanlioglu Arhitects Dogan Medya Center Ankara, Turkey The Dogan Medya Center on Ankara-Eskisehir road, planned as a distinctive media figure, houses TV channels and the newspapers Hurriyet and Milliyet. Respecting the square site the architects decided on the cube as the main form. Building from the surface up the straight cube deformed and restructured with the addition and subtraction of cub..
Architects: ACXT Location: Bilbao, Spain Architect in Charge: César Azcárate Project Architects: Gonzalo Carro, Raimundo Bambó, Javier Vergara, Jorge Minguet, Manuel Andrades, Marc Rips, Iñigo Arana, María Labastida, Ruth Mendoza, Javier Oteiza, Cruz Lacoma, Eloy Olabarri Project year: 2005 Constructed Area: 450,000 sqm Project Managment: Alexander Zeuss, Eva Madariaga, Álvaro Gutiérrez Structur..
XTEN Architecture have designed Sapphire Gallery, an extension to a house for art collectors in Los Angeles, USA. Cantilevered above the existing 1960’s house, the structure is clad in perforated aluminium to protect the artwork from direct sun but allow views of the gardens beyond. Solar cells are arranged in a similar pattern on the south facade and sloping roof. Radiant heating and cooling sy..
Architects: Shuhei Endo Location: Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan Structure System: Suspended Steel Sheet Project year: 2005 Principal use: Public Lavatory Site Area: 580 sqm Constructed Area: 103 sqm Photographs: Shuhei Endo
Artfarm Town of Clinton, New York, 2006 - 2008 , in collaboration with the artist Ai Weiwei Client private Team HERLACH HARTMANN FROMMENWILER with Tom Strub, Fumiko Takahama Photos by Iwan Baan, www.iwan.com The ARTFARM is located in upstate New York, on the site of a private residence. The building is designed as a gallery for a professional art collection. On the interior it is subdivided into..
Spanish designers Luzinterruptus have completed a guerrilla lighting installation in a Madrid street. The Luz Interruptus (Red) project temporarily decorated 26 street lamps in Calle del Pez with domestic-style shades. According to the designers the installation, carried out on the night of 12 December, cost 180 Euros, took three hours and lasted seven hours. Photos are by Gustavo Sanabria. Here..
El pabellón está elevado sobre tres núcleos estructurales y de comunicación liberando el espacio de planta baja para crear una plaza y ceder un espacio libre al conjunto de la expo. A esa plaza se superponen cuatro niveles. Inicialmente se construyen únicamente dos, para la exposición, durante la cual funcionará el pabellón de Aragón. Para su uso posterior, como departamento del Gobierno de Arag..
Por su ubicación respecto de las áreas industriales y químicas del entorno, que no permiten un uso residencial, el edificio rehabilitado de una antigua serrería alberga ahora un taller de arquitectura. El proyecto recupera el edificio conservando su estructura y cerramiento perimetral. La rehabilitación se materializa en dos tratamientos diferentes para el interior y el exterior. El exterior val..
Here are some more images of the Welcome Back bus designed by Héctor Serrano Studio, Miñarro García and Javier Esteban, which won second prize in the New Bus For London competition last week. See our previous story for details of the other winners. Lighting in the entrance platform at the back of the vehicle alerts boarding or alighting passengers when the bus is about to move. The bus is compac..
First year students of the Vehicle Design course at London’s Royal College of Art presented concepts for light, compact cars at the Science Museum in London earlier this month. The students were asked to research Japanese light vehicles Kei cars, then design a version for a chosen European city. Above: Augustin Barbot, 25 from France Aimed at commuters who need to travel into the city from the r..